[Tfug] Xorg 1.5

[erich]

Yeah,
          Here are the statistics: As of Tues, Mar 10 2009 I had this 
machine stabilized & ready
to go. I've been running with it for a while. Just to give you some 
background, this machine
functions as a workstation and a multimedia audio/video system. As such, 
it has mplayer,
k3b, xine, kino and audacious installed on it. I want to do more movie 
editing on it so
I've decided to get a 1000G drive as part of an upgrade.

          I decided in early July to upgrade the software and 193 
software packages need
upgrading. It's currently in the process of downloading the 165th 
package. So
my machine has been a "Rip Van Winkle" for only 4 months and look at the
hardware/software integration task that confronts me. Xorg 1.5 is a 
about 10% of this.

          I hope I can get by without upgrading the compiler and the 
kernel.  I have to put
constraints in the system or the process will blithely upgrade those too.

          Yes, HAL has already been upgraded.

                                                                                                                   
Cheers,
                                                                                                                   
Erich
         
Jim March wrote:
> Erich,
>
> As far as I can tell, there's FOUR pieces interacting when you have an
> Intel video card:
>
> * Kernel version 2.6.29 or higher, as there's kernel-level modesetting
> being moved in there with the new GEM memory manager.
>
> * HAL
>
> * Xorg
>
> * Intel driver.
>
> I believe the situations with AMD and NVidia are almost as messy.
>
> Short form, a LOT of stuff is in transition.  Intel-based video was
> stable as hell for a long time but now it's deep in flux.  Rather than
> sort it out myself I've been tied to the "xorg edgers" repos under
> Ubuntu which has been updating my video/xorg stuff on average just
> about every three days or so it seems, for almost two months now(!).
> And it's sometimes unstable.
>
> If you can PERSONALLY make sense of this crap and roll your own
> combination, you're one hell of a good geek and I bow to you.  But
> until then, I'd have to bet against you succeeding.  "Messy" doesn't
> begin.
>
> If you must go bleeding edge, I'd say grab Fedora 11.  It'll be less
> heartache than a total roll-your-own.
>
> Jim
>
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